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ConnectWise RMM vs Rootly comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
ConnectWise RMM boosts MSP growth by enhancing efficiency, reducing labor costs, and optimizing resources, leading to increased focus on clients.
Sentiment score
3.7
Rootly enhances productivity and standardizes incident management despite uncertainties regarding measurable ROI and specific efficiency metrics.
It saves probably more than 50% of the time that would have been required, likely around 75%.
Manager, Technical Team at Expert It Solutions Alberta
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.1
ConnectWise RMM offers 24/7 effective support via multiple channels, ensuring prompt resolution of issues with knowledgeable communication.
Sentiment score
6.5
Rootly's customer service is praised for quick, proactive engagement and useful Slack support, leading to high user satisfaction.
The customer support for ConnectWise RMM is very useful, very straightforward, and very responsive.
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I rate their support and customer service with ConnectWise as good, as their support team is quick to answer chat requests.
Manager, Technical Team at Expert It Solutions Alberta
If I need any assistance, I go onto our guide portal.
Project Engineer at Moksh Tech
Rootly's customer support is great; every time we have had to use it, they have gotten in touch with us really quickly and connected us to the relevant teams to fix our problems or potentially suggest a feature for the future.
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The customer support is quite good; I can write to Rootly specialists in Slack, and that is very useful.
Devops engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
ConnectWise RMM scales efficiently with SaaS flexibility, easily handling large endpoints and data, ideal for businesses of all sizes.
Sentiment score
6.1
Rootly enhances scalability by seamlessly integrating with growth, simplifying component addition, alert management, and user expansion for teams.
The scalability of ConnectWise RMM is very good; I can upgrade my licenses or get a higher number of licenses for more devices as I grow very easily and without issues.
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I measure the scalability by the number of clients, the number of devices and users, and the amount of information that ConnectWise can process is quite amazing.
Project Engineer at Moksh Tech
If we ever need to add a new alert, we just put it into the code, run the pipeline, and we are done.
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Rootly's scalability is great; it goes under the hood and my colleagues and I as users do not think about it generally.
Devops engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
ConnectWise RMM is highly stable, requiring minimal maintenance, with users rarely facing issues, ensuring reliable long-term performance.
Sentiment score
8.7
Rootly is praised for its stability, with users consistently highlighting its reliability and lack of issues or complications.
ConnectWise RMM has been quite stable for the last eight months.
Project Engineer at Moksh Tech
 

Room For Improvement

ConnectWise RMM lacks integration, offers limited dashboard customization, and is perceived as reactive, raising concerns about alignment with user needs.
Rootly aims to improve integration, notifications, and customization with AI while listening to user feedback for future enhancements.
We always have problems where we can't log into it, so we have to use the web version.
Project Engineer at Moksh Tech
The pricing for ConnectWise RMM is reasonable.
Manager, Technical Team at Expert It Solutions Alberta
The team at Rootly seems to always be adapting and looking at what the market is doing and adding new features.
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Flexibility in notification settings and workflow customization would benefit organizations with different incident processes.
Specilist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We had one incident when we lost alerting generally because Rootly crashed, and we did not like it.
Devops engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

ConnectWise RMM offers flexible, competitive pricing with cost-efficient licensing, starting at $2.50 per endpoint monthly, and exceptional support.
Rootly offers competitive pricing and easy setup, appealing to enterprises, though user addition processes could improve.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very smooth.
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Generally, it is great and the price is great, and that is the reason we chose Rootly.
Devops engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Rootly scheduled a call with us and was very quick to give us a POC license to trial out the full product.
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

ConnectWise RMM offers integration, automation, patch management, remote access, and NOC services, enhancing visibility, security updates, and IT streamlining.
Rootly's Slack integration streamlines communication, enhances workflow, improves resolution rates, and boosts operational efficiency with top tool integrations.
Automated patch management in ConnectWise RMM has made everything streamlined, allowing me to concentrate on more important tasks.
Project Engineer at Moksh Tech
The ability to do deployments through ConnectWise RMM's scripting features allows us to deploy new software or monitor the status of antivirus or system protection software, presenting another measurable benefit for us regarding ROI.
Manager, Technical Team at Expert It Solutions Alberta
ConnectWise RMM has had huge benefits for me in terms of being able to proactively and reactively resolve issues on all of my machines and helping my end users get their tasks done faster.
System Administrator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
With the strategic approach of putting everyone in a Slack group to resolve incidents, we have reduced the percentage of incidents created in a month by thirty percent during the first three months of using Rootly.
System Architect at CI&T
Rather than manually tweaking schedules to try to hack a way to shadow existing engineers, Rootly gave us a shadow feature which allowed us to say person X, please shadow person Y, using these times and these days, very customizable.
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The precise rules and entities help me route alerts very specifically to the exact persons who are in charge and to rotate this person using on-call policies.
Devops engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

ConnectWise RMM
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (53rd), Server Monitoring (18th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (45th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) (7th), Patch Management (16th), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (16th)
Rootly
Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of ConnectWise RMM is 3.3%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rootly is 2.8%, down from 9.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Rootly2.8%
ConnectWise RMM3.3%
Other93.9%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

Faiz Fortune - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Engineer at Moksh Tech
Automated monitoring has streamlined time tracking and project management across all clients
I think the most valuable feature of ConnectWise RMM is scheduling my time with clients and capturing my times with them. Time management is key for my workflow. It helps with keeping track of all our clients and all the devices, so ConnectWise RMM has been quite helpful in managing my IT environment overall. Automated patch management in ConnectWise RMM has made everything streamlined, allowing me to concentrate on more important tasks. I can run my automations and ensure that they go through every server, every cloud infrastructure, and every client. I've observed that with ConnectWise RMM, capturing my times used to be quite an issue when working with overseas countries, but now it's much easier, and I can monitor everything I'm doing in real-time.
MT
Lead Dev Ops Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
On-call workflows have become reliable and onboarding new engineers runs smoothly
The best feature that Rootly offers, which I really appreciated when we onboarded Rootly, is the shadowing feature. I evaluated quite a few tools but Rootly was the only one at the time that had this, and this allowed us to onboard new engineers into the on-call rota smoothly, which was a really cool feature. Regarding how the shadowing feature helped with onboarding new engineers, rather than manually tweaking schedules to try to hack a way to shadow existing engineers, Rootly gave us a shadow feature which allowed us to say person X, please shadow person Y, using these times and these days, very customizable, and it allowed us to onboard people in a much more graceful manner.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Performing Arts
7%
Performing Arts
27%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Continuum Command?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very smooth; I quickly got a quote from a ConnectWise account manager and was able to proceed with signing the contract and getting the sol...
What needs improvement with Continuum Command?
I have not noticed any limitations or pain points so far.
What is your primary use case for Continuum Command?
I have been using ConnectWise RMM for about a year and a few months now, and I am also getting Bitdefender GravityZone EDR licenses through ConnectWise directly through a partnership. I use Connect...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rootly?
Regarding my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, we got a license for one year. Generally, it is great and the price is great, and that is the reason we chose Rootly. The only thing...
What needs improvement with Rootly?
There are a few areas where Rootly can be improved. More customization options for postmortem templates and reports would be helpful. Enhancing search functionality to make it easier to locate hist...
What is your primary use case for Rootly?
I use Rootly every day to manage the end-to-end incident lifecycle. When a critical incident is reported, I create or join an incident on Rootly, assign the appropriate severity, and engage the req...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Continuum Command, Continuum RMM
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Frontier Business Products, Itek Systems Management, ZLan, Karpel, MySherpa, Arvig, CCSI, Leap Managed IT, eProsper, Pensar, Gordon Flesch, LeadingEdge, NSI, Server Sentry, Computer Consultants, Keystone IT Consulting, Ekaru, Epic Technologies, Rouse Consulting, Empower Information Systems, Computer Solutions Group, The Critical Update, Voice Smart Networks, CMIT Solutions, Preferred Communication Systems, G2 Tech Group, Pulse Business Solutions, Greystone Technology Group, Clare Computer Solutions, Evolve IT Australia
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